Cross-browser window resize event - JavaScript / jQuery
jQuery has a built-in method for this:
$(window).resize(function () { /* do something */ });For the sake of UI responsiveness, you might consider using a setTimeout to call your code only after some number of milliseconds, as shown in the following example, inspired by this:
function doSomething() { alert("I'm done resizing for the moment");};var resizeTimer;$(window).resize(function() { clearTimeout(resizeTimer); resizeTimer = setTimeout(doSomething, 100);});
Here is the non-jQuery way of tapping into the resize event:
window.addEventListener('resize', function(event){ // do stuff here});It works on all modern browsers. It does not throttle anything for you. Here is an example of it in action.